Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and “High Road†Strategies in the Care Sector

Nancy Folbre
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Nancy Folbre: University of Massachusetts–Amherst

Politics & Society, 2006, vol. 34, issue 1, 11-32

Abstract: Paid care services such as child care, elder care, teaching, and nursing are vulnerable to competitive pressures that often generate low-pay/low-quality outcomes. Both workers and consumers suffer as a result. This article develops an economic analysis of the “care sector†that emphasizes the potential to build political coalitions that could push for a high-pay/high-quality alternative.

Keywords: care; contracts; workers; consumers; coalitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329205284754

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